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Cargando... To the End of the Earth (2009)por Tom Avery
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The thrilling true adventure of a deadly trek to the North Pole, a one-hundred-year-old mystery, and an inspiring tale of polar exploration To the End of the Earth explores perhaps the greatest controversy in the history of exploration. Did U.S. Naval Commander Robert Peary and his team dogsled to the North Pole in thirty-seven days in 1909? Or, as has been challenged, was this speed impossible, and was he a cheat? In 2005, polar explorer Tom Avery and his team set out to re-create Peary's one-hundred-year-old journey, using the same equipment, to show that Peary's team could have done what they had always claimedand discovered the North Pole. Navigating treacherous pressure ridges, deadly channels of open water, bitterly cold temperatures, and traveling in a similar style to Peary and Henson with dog teams and replica wooden sledges bound together with cord, Avery tells the story of how his team covered 413 nautical miles to the North Pole in thirty-six days and twenty-two hours--some four hours faster than the original pioneers. Weaving fascinating polar exploration history with thrilling extreme adventure, this is Avery's story of how he and his team nearly gave their lives trying to determine if Peary and Henson were telling the truth. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Avery's trip was certainly eventful, and at times downright horrifying. Avery and his team of four other explorers, 16 dogs and two sleds managed to beat Peary's time to the pole by 4 hours, lending credence to the idea that Peary did indeed make the journey he said he did - though not without a bit of controversy himself. It's an exciting story, one I was eager to read. Unfortunately, Avery's a much better explorer than writer. It's not that the book was bad, it's just that the main thing I got out of it was a sense of the size of Avery's ego. I know that it takes a strong personality to do the things explorers do, but it got to be a bit much. Avery adds a bit about Peary and the history of polar exploration. With more of this and a bit of toning down, To the End of the Earth could have been outstanding instead of just average. (